Burma's Bloody Blog Spots

The Asia Times has a chilling article about modern media - blogs - and the role they are playing in the blood bath of Burma. Some of us recall the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing China, when fax machines facilitated communication into and out of Communist China. The fax then, and the blogs now, have had enormous impact on the way the world becomes aware of events around the planet. BANGKOK - Dodging a deadly military crackdown, bloggers in [Burma] are now on the front lines providing news and photos of death and insurrection. The military responded on Friday by closing down the Internet, signaling that a wider and more severe crackdown on street protesters could be imminent.... Less than 1% of the [Burmese] population has regular access to the Internet. But those who at least until today had regular access were able to get around government-administered blocks on internationally hosted e-mail accounts and the wider Internet by using an array of proxy servers, proxy sites and so-called http tunnels. FULL STORY... RELATED: 'Citizen Journalists' Evade Myanmar's Blackout "Citizen journalists" are breaking the news from [Burma] to the world. Witnesses are using cellphones and the Internet to beam out images of bloodied monks and street fires, subverting the government's effort to control media coverage.